We’re trying to figure out what’s happening to our team.
DEZ Wells is a one-man army for San Miguel Beer.
Despite suffering back-to-back losses in the Philippine Basketball Association Governors’ Cup, San Miguel Beer head coach Leo Austria believes that there’s no reason to panic.
The Beermen, who are seeking a rare grand slam, are off to a bumpy ride after losing three of their last four games.
They lost to Barangay Ginebra, but managed to bounce back against Columbian. Then, they suffered another loss to NorthPort before absorbing a nightmarish 99-125 setback to Meralco for their first back-to-back losses of the conference.
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All in all, the Beermen are outside the top four with a 5-3 win-loss mark behind TNT KaTropa, NLEX, Meralco and Ginebra.
Against the Bolts, the Beermen were terrible, banking only on the scoring prowess of import Dez Wells and the brilliance of five-time Most Valuable Player June Mar Fajardo.
Wells has been averaging 41.2 points, 6.7 rebound and 5.2 assists while Fajardo norms 22 points and 14.2 rebounds in their last four games.
Austria knows that they need to address this lack of local support, but maintained that are not yet ready to press the panic button.
“We had a lengthy discussion,” said Austria, whose wards were supposed to win the grand slam last year, but suffered a stinging loss in the season-ending conference.
“We’re trying to figure out what’s happening to our team. As early as now, we need to do that because we’re still in contention. It’s our goal this conference is to make it back to the semifinals.”
Austria said they would get their acts together to put themselves back on top.
“We want the team to re-focus on what we want we’re doing before because this conference is really important to us. The opportunity is still here. Right now, we’re at number five or six, we still have three games left but we should get our acts together. We have to support each other,” he said, adding that complacency brought by their early success got into his players.
“The problem with our team right now is that we’re so complacent because of our good start. They thought its easy to win. And I told them that we should not dwell on our last two championships.”
“All teams right now are playing well and they have a very good team and the presence of very good imports in their respective teams.”
San Miguel will look to end its misfortune when it takes on Blackwater on Wednesday next week.
